The Californian quartet has promised two concerts at each stages with a different spectacle each day.
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The legendary American metal metal group Metallica announced, Monday, November 28, the release in April 2023 of a new studio album and a tour in Europe and North America in 2023 and 2024. The album 72 Seasons will release April 14, 2023 and will be immediately followed by concerts in Amsterdam (Netherlands), in Paris (Stade de France on May 17 and 19), in Hamburg (Germany), then in Sweden, according to Metallica press releases and the giant of Ticketing and Live Nation entertainment.
will follow, from August to November 2023, concerts in the United States and Canada (Los Angeles, Phoenix, Detroit, Montréal …) before a return to the Old Continent from May 2024 (Munich, Helsinki , Warsaw, Madrid …), then again in North America (Chicago, Seattle, Mexico C! /Div>
The Californian quartet, including founding members like James Hetfield, 59, and Danish drummer Lars Ulrich, 58, play and perform for forty years, has promised two concerts at each stages with a different show every day .
Their twelfth studio album – The first since 2016 – has twelve titles, including one, Lux Aeterna, was unveiled on Monday.
“Be prisoners of our childhood or free themselves from these links”
According to James Hetfield, the title of 72 Seasons refers to the “first eighteen years of our lives which form our true or our false self”.
“Our parents have told us” who we are “(…). Most of our adult experience is to replay or react to our childhood experiences. To be prisoners of our childhood or Freeing himself from these links, “writes the American singer, who, in four career decades, broke with a number of excesses and addictions and even led with his group a psychotherapy told in a documentary in 2001 (Metallica: Some Kind of Monster).
With the power of sound metal, Metallica had awakened in September a New York charitable concert for the climate and against the poverty of a dozen American and European artists organized in Central Park, in the heart of Manhattan, by the ‘Global American NGO.